WELLINGTON ITEMS.
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[fBOK Otm COBEKBPOHDKKT.] WELLINGTON, September 16.
Some very ridiculous effects of the Civil Service Act—which was passed in a mutilated shape last session—have already come under notice. Several appointments or transfers of appointments in connection with offices of a technical or "expert" character have had to be revoked because the appointees had not passed the competitive cadet examination which that Act co rigidly prescribes. what I hear, several very awkward complications are likely to proceed from the working of that peculiar statute. The result is not eneonrajring to the practice of drafting important Ministerial Bills hastily before breakfast in order to steal a> march on opponents. The rumor that Mr Ballance intended to visit England next year is denied semiofficially. Bspid progress is being made with the WeUington-Manuwata Bailwey, aad it ia I confidently expected that with fairly good i weather the through line will be completed within the next nix weeks. Mr S. Brown's tnmwl «mtraot will be finished at the end
taneoosly withrtha^f«iroiat ; «n both nortli and south of Waikanae. There are only seven or eight miles of ballasting and platelayiog now to be done, and this is proceeding at the rate of about one mile every four dajs. The temporary line at Paikakariki has now been abandoned, and traina are runnisg on the permanent raOa. The formation now in course of construction extends within three miles of Wai- ! kaaae, and four milee north. A block of some of the Company's best land, comprising about 16,000 acres, between Linton and Shannon, will be put up for auction Borne time in J>ecamber next, and from its nrst-dass ebaracter is expected to be eagerly competed for. The. driving of the last spike in the line will be attended by a ceremony befitting so auspicious an occasion. When the line is open there will be continuous railway communication between Wellington and New Plymouth, and the journey between Wellington and Hew Plymouth,and the journey between Wellington and Napier will be easily performed in a day. ■
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Press, Volume XLIII, Issue 6548, 17 September 1886, Page 3
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WELLINGTON ITEMS.
Press, Volume XLIII, Issue 6548, 17 September 1886, Page 3
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